alert we'll have that update for you coming up and a major break in the case two days after explosions ripped through the boston marathon and the f.b.i. say that they may be close to an arrest now our teams on the ground in boston and we'll have that report just ahead. days after a violent clash between guards and prisoners the u.s. military says that a hunger strike at guantanamo bay is expanding but are we learning about this new report looks like torture will sort through that's just ahead. well it's wednesday april seventeenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret held you are watching our t. now starting us our capitol hill is on high alert the f.b.i. has confirmed suspicious letters containing a poisonous substance have been sent to both the white house and to congress and envelope containing the deadly poison rice and was mailed to the office of republican senator roger wicker of mississippi yesterday now today another envelope

laced with the poison was found a draft of the president himself has talked to me more about this i'm joined by our t.v. producer adriano. and artie correspondent perry and boring let's start with you what's happening right now with the situation well a lot to talk about a lot of activity today on capitol hill the white house has confirmed today that a letter containing a suspicious substance in this case. was indeed mailed to the president just yesterday as you have just mentioned the f.b.i. reports of another envelope that was delivered to a member of capitol hill a member of congress are on capitol hill in this case it was republican senator roger wicker from mississippi those concerns continued on today at the senate in the evacuation of both the russell and hart office buildings today so i mean from. another letter scare so it seems you know has been already cleared people have come

back to their offices however things still remain on high alert certainly so you know when i think of rice and i think of rat poison can you explain to us exactly what this is so essentially it's a very simply is a poison and according and it's made according to the c.d.c. it's made from castor beans so exposure to it is actually has to be very deliberate so it is poisonous or deadly if ingested so essentially comes in various forms in this case it was a powder so essentially it's not it's not contagious but can spread but can sometimes spread from person to person so exposure must be deliberate in order to cause some sort of harm sees. parian you've been on the hill lot of experience there can you tell us exactly but again this process for me how does it work when mail goes then right i works in the house of representative for a member of congress and when i was first there my first job was the constituent relations director and my main duty was to oversee the entire correspondence office

for this particular member so part of that was reading all of the members now as you can imagine members of congress get a lot of mail on a daily basis and they need help from their staffers had to sort through it and that was my first job but before i would even get the mail in the office it would go through. a screening process off campus overseen by the capitol police so anything like what we saw senator wicker is off as it was intercepted by capitol police for so it was really impossible for something like this to enter the compound. i see so the same process for the capitol hill same process for the white house we're seeing letters go to the white house too is that essentially how that works there and before i was on capitol hill i worked as a white house intern for president obama in the presidential office of correspondence is very similar process except for is overseen by secret service and in fact the office of presidential correspondence is very large has over fifty employees and over thirteen hundred volunteers that help read all the president's

mail the president gets about ten thousand pieces of mail a week and then every single piece of mail is read by a human being and then before it gets to the president's desk is probably you seen at least six. white house appointees but it is a similar process the president's office of correspondence is actually off site and even in the white house is too big to fit in the white house but before it reaches the presidential is correspondents office is sent to another facility where it screened overseen by the secret service so again it's pretty much a cost over something like this to reach the president's office ok so mail sorters and people like you know are they in real danger of actually touching the mail you know how close do they come in contact with with actually being in harm's way they're not going to come in contact with a piece of mail that is. at least with any type of dangerous material everything has been screened before it gets there and that oversees the mail who screen the mail are all secured and they go through extensive protocol before anybody any

staffer could ever be in danger ok also in terms of the member. does the member actually touch their own mail or is there a multiple chain of command before it actually gets to them if it ever gets to them short members and the president himself do you get to see their own mail like i said members of congress and the president receive a lot of mail on a daily basis and it would literally be impossible for them to read every piece of mail that comes to them there so essentially it's on lockdown and that's where you're trying to assess why they hire sat there's a lot of mail that doesn't merit a response you get a lot of rain. thank you no it's a present receives a huge amount to get. really take his entire ten people's entire day to read just go through. so only only mail that requires their personal attention will be put on their. i don't know what's next in this case well as centrally you know your guess is as good as ours. people are still on higher alert and people on the hill are

still incredibly cautious so we are still seeing. inflows and people are still worried but we shall see if they will that was r.t. producer adriano usera an r.t. correspondent hereon boring guys so the city of boston is still reeling from that tragic event that rocked monday afternoon two separate explosions ripped through the stands of the boston marathon injuring scores of onlookers and leaving three including an eight year old child that as law enforcement agencies contend yet the search for answers in this case artie's on a stasia churkin that gives us a closer look at the latest in boston the picture perfect city of boston brings back memories and fears that americans have not dealt with since september eleventh . at the finishing line of the boston marathon two bombs explode seconds apart from each other killing at least three people including an eight year old boy and a twenty nine year old young woman and leaving at least

a hundred and seventy five people injured over a dozen of them currently in critical condition just got to be thinking about the people who didn't survive. thinking about the child that was killed and for that for the survivors think about their family and their friends and them as well witnesses describe what they saw as horrifying some people saw body parts being ripped off others blood all over the sidewalks while some people rushed to help victims others ran away from the scene in chaos doctors currently treating patients in local hospital see they could spirit. one of the most traumatizing events of their careers the two bombs were reportedly homemade out of pressure cookers filled with nails pulled out a victim's limbs and black powder the magnitude of the blast was so strong that it sent debris flying onto building tops some victims needed second surgeries even after amputations it really hasn't hit me yet. like i had couldn't sleep last night

i'm constantly like anxious and nervous i can't focus on my studies because i'm a graduate student a block from where it happened so like wow that's like it really hits you even though officials say there is no longer an immediate threat security has been beefed up here in boston and throughout the united states the obama administration has already referred to what happened as a terror act but exactly what kind of consequences this will have for america's foreign and domestic policy it remains to be seen officials say they've been receiving thousands of clues from around the world a media frenzy surrounding the bombings the united states has not seen a similar acts in years officials are saying the investigation is still very fluid with the majority of questions yet to be answered this is our city you know our home so it's you can't live in fear but it's definitely always kind of going to be in the back of your mind i don't see how it can't the f.b.i. is in charge of the case with more information to follow as the investigation continues americans are trying to move on with their lives overshadowed by thoughts

of what the tragedy will mean for their future you could see the very pretty faces like is this the beginning where america is now you know where we're now the american version of beirut you know a little bit more now that we're going to have to second guess every event that we have. that nine eleven changed travel this you know the concern that i've had and i suspect that other people have are going through their mind is this going to do that for all the public battle over the last decade the u.s. has pumped enormous resources into security and steps often critter. sighs for breaching the rights of u.s. citizens and foreigners alike but what are the results and have all these efforts created anything more than an illusion of safety that you're going to. boston massachusetts well to give us an update on the situation in boston artes and honest i see a church going to joined us earlier on the ground and i asked her about the latest information about the investigation into the bombings well margaret the

investigation unfortunately still in the very early stages it's very fluid there is almost no information that has been released that's new over the last twenty four hours because the f.b.i. and the police and the investigators here on the ground are working around the clock trying to piece together exactly what it was that happened on monday afternoon as we know just minutes before three pm local time here in boston on monday at the finishing line of the boston marathon two bombs went off just seconds apart from one and the other and what we only can confirm and what officials are only confirming at this point right now is just the numbers of casualties we know that at least three people have died including an eight year old boy and a twenty nine year old young woman as well as a twenty three year old young woman and the number of people injured over one hundred seventy five were dozen of those people have been in local hospitals throughout boston in critical condition over the last two days and so far as the

investigation continues we are expecting the f.b.i. to hold a press conference later on today where hopefully more information will be released in terms of. how exactly this investigation is progressing so honest and see what is the mood down in the city and how are people coping with what's happened down there. well margaret people are certainly shocked with what happened to people living in boston and they have returned to their lives as usual you know students going back to college people going to work but the area where the blast took place is cordoned off police are working there around the clock trying to find pieces of information any kind of evidence they can lay their hands on but people are certainly shocked and shaken by what happened to a lot of people who are still feel nervous even though officials have been said that an immediate threat no longer exists that people are ok to go back to their lives but certainly because something like this is so unexpected when it takes place people are certainly shocked not just here in boston but certainly well

boston is a city with heavy surveillance cameras everywhere do we know anything about this suspect and nationality perhaps was it caught on camera. margaret no the investigation is only in its first stages there have been some conflicting reports being released here and there but what we confirmed what we can confirm for now is that there is really no information on who could have been behind this arrest as of yet we do know that the white house of course has identified this act as a terror act but in terms of whether or not this was an individual or group of people behind this act whether it was a domestic act or something that came from abroad that is still yet to be determined and that is certainly exactly what the investigators are working on right now as we speak certainly can you tell us about the victims of the bombing at any updates that there may be on them how many remain in the hospital what kind of condition their end. what we know margaret is that initially over one hundred

seventy five people were injured in the blast over seventeen people remain in critical condition for quite a long time we do know that i'm fortunately were there were some conflicting reports about the deaths that occurred the three people who died again the two young women and the young boy there was some kind of miscommunication there unfortunately for the families they were getting conflicting information waffles are really still working here around the clock trying to save as many people as possible sadly i'm fortunately many doctors have been saying that what they've been seeing over the last couple of days in their job is really the most traumatizing experiences they've taught in their careers and they're continuing to try to save as many lives as they can. well that was our t. correspondent. and an update now on what's happening with guantanamo bay detainees military officials are defending a violent clash that took place this weekend between detainees and those guarding them now attorneys for those being held say that they were not allowed to communicate with their clients this comes more after two months or longer of

a hunger strike among the detainees which first began in one of the longest and largest and the detention centers history now more than fifty detainees are taking part in the strike with at least fifteen being force fed now the constitution project task force just released a scathing report on the detainee treatment in prisons and detention centers from get mo to afghanistan to iraq after two years of study they say that what's happening to these detainees detainees constitutes torture outing perhaps the most important or notable finding of this panel is that the indisputable fact that the united states engaged in practice of torture the second notable conclusion of the task force is that the nation's highest officials bear some responsibility for allowing and contributing the spread of torture now for more on this i'm joined by david remes human rights defense attorney representing detainees in guantanamo hi there david wu so can you tell me what's happening in this clash that happened on

saturday give give us an update here where we don't know exactly what happened all we have is the military's word for what happened which i don't take at face value but according to reports the military moved most of the men who were in the most populous camp camp six which was a communal living arrangement into camp five which is an isolation cell arrangement they gave as a reason that they couldn't monitor the men in camp six because the men had covered the cameras but that doesn't wash because that situation has been going on for two or three months now i think that they're just trying to break the hunger strike and they picked a particularly brutal way to do it. so the way i understand it military shows up in riot gear they essentially storm you know so basically that's not what happened but we're not really sure what happened do we know how many prisoners were involved well i do think it's clear that they moved the detainees and i do think it's clear that they used to riot police and so forth and now it's emerging that there were

casualties on both sides blood was shed we don't know more than that i should say and again all we have is what the military tells us certainly sense no attorneys are being allowed in allowed to communicate with their clients at this point the way that i understand it you know cameras inside to kind of record what's happening so we kind of have to take their word at face value do we know what sparked this or is it just that underlying measure of trying to break up this strike on the issue of communication it appears to be a rather arbitrary policy i have a call scheduled at nine thirty tomorrow morning with a or rather a ninety minute call scheduled tomorrow morning with one of my clients yassine is smile we were informed by the justice department yesterday that he was being force fed but maybe they reserve calls for that kind of an urgent situation what sparked the hunger strike in the media terms was the military's attempt to reinstitute the policy of qur'an searches something that it had given up seven or eight years ago

after a similar hunger strike it's not the way that the grounds are being searched it's the very fact that they're being searched that offends the men i don't think that there would have been such an explosive reaction though without the underlying problem of indefinite detention that these men are entering their twelfth year without charge without any end in sight i think that that was the combustible situation and the qur'an search was the match that lit the fuse certainly so you mentioned one of your clients and finally being able to communicate with him tomorrow and the way that we understand it he is one of those detainees being force fed a sample the top. do you at all about what's happening to him or is he in a state where he you know tell me about him well i only will know the answer to that question tomorrow when i speak to him in the past he's been very lucid and he's told us a great deal about what has happened in his case over the years and during the hunger strike as

a matter of fact i was there in early march and i've heard many details from many of my detainees clients say so the constitution project task force has determined that what's happening to these men is in fact torture as can you give us an inside and inside look at what essentially is going on with these guys what's happening to them directly what's happening now is a return to bush era policies of detention operations the authorities try to demonstrate over and over again that they are in charge before a recent turnover in command the situation was peaceful and quiet with this new command and it's show of force the situation has become a have the command has stormed camp six the command has been present when a tower guard fired into a crowd of detainees in january and be authorities of course were present for the search actually present i mean has authorized or tolerated. all of these that have

built up and you have the underlying problem of indefinite detention that certainly is torture. ok so talk to me about this raid do you think it's going to have any impact at all on the hunger strike so my sense from meeting with the men and talking with them over the phone is that it will only increase their resolve the problem with the command currently is that it won't budge it's obstinate wants to break the detainees rather than try to meet them in a metal as i mentioned the authorities chose solution to. the searches of the qur'an way back in two thousand and six it also gave the detainees the choice of turning in their qur'an s'pore safe keeping to protect them against being searched it seems like that's a reasonable alternative to the command won't do either and say well david certainly a lot of information thank you for giving us some insight into this that was david

remes human rights attorney. and conflict has come to a head as post-election violence rises in venezuela amid the election of a new president nicolas maduro now has been acting as the president since the death of longtime leader hugo chavez on march the fifth now since the election tensions between madeira supporters and those who stand behind the opposition leader can wreak contended some out ask a previous calls for a recount of this very tight election there currently seven confirmed dead in the clashes an r.t.s. tease r.c.l. is on the ground in caracas and she brings us more. the opposition leader he basically said that he doesn't want to see any more violence and that he calls on his supporters to peacefully protest basically asking them to stay home and just bang the pots and pans it was a very noisy evening tuesday night here in caracas who initially they had planned to hold a protest in front of the electoral council in the city center but meanwhile smuggle he had banned any protests to take place in. stating security reasons and

so because someone who has been blaming the opposition for the violence seven deaths as you mentioned earlier but the us is saying that any violence that has happened it's the government who is behind it so they've been exchanging accusations now despite the band in the city center we've seen a real see reports that there are some people gathering in other parts of town to support herself on my google. reports say that they are out together we can happen in a press conference given by the two men on tuesday they really exchanged very strong words strong accusations but they were basically saying that this is a plot to get cool and that it is backed by the united states everything that they're doing another way of looking at it this perhaps is also trying to start to show himself you know he had run a campaign heavy piece on google charges that there are some even of his supporters saying that we don't really know who he is and what he's capable of so these are one of the few steps that we're seeing that's coming from him accusing him already of being a story terry and now as far as money was concerned going on into this presidency

we know that it's already starting off very weak with that we with that small margin but the results of the elections he has to fill in the shoes of the without the chorus mobile which obvious fix the problems of the people get the military the government and a very divided population in line well that was our g.s.t. is are so low in caracas and did affairs ever stop going up well if you've ever ridden the new york city subway your wallet might be feeling that fare hike that took effect in march of this year a single ride on a new york city subway or bus could cost two dollars recently. as in two thousand and nine that it rose to twenty five prizes increased to two fifty this march but the cost of a week or a month long ticket also went up all of this from a city that has been pushing for more people to take public transportation instead of driving cars the increase has some new yorkers up in arms an artsy rapper mr even beats he has the solution take

a listen to these and at the price you pay the cops some of the cops are much. bigger. well with me to discuss the latest of the subway hikes is the rapper himself you just saw mr abt hello there so what's happening on the new york area transit hi there tell me what's happening in new york well you know as you can see the from the only reason the price of the train food a buzz you know that thing is i would be drove certainly so could you give us a little wrap of what's happening in the city or what you said you want to hear what i would love to get a rap from your any any type of rap you can give us on the air over from from the song. or just a rebel in general or rap in general about this it's your choice mr beattie you begging. well it is this goes. it goes to feed the

anger that is to feed the anger is if no cop around them will have. because i don't give a lot of being informed of the change i miss a month. so i've got to work extra hard because you raise the price of the metro. got no patience i get my hop on if i see no agent year i don't want my money wasted our revenue of the term human voice so well i'm all about the truth you raise and at the price but you're not going down bulls theme mr abt that was fabulous is this a big enough pants to keep people off the subway. i'm sure but it's is this is just kind of like difficult to understand how you reason a price and then you raise an uprising you've got to pay an extra dollar for a measure because if you don't have a metric or like i'm not understand when they catch you i see sir is your solution

to stash opt out as you say can you offer us any type of solution well i'm just saying if if if you go do it just don't get caught there's an arm saying this out that if you got it have that as an arms and he said do you think that the reason for these high is a lack of money from the transit authority or they just steering this why are they doing this do you think. i'm definitely not sure i read the article in and about them about fear. and she is losing about what fifty million dollars what people have you have to understand you know not everybody has the money for that commute you know and the reason the price in minimum wage is still low it's like what can you do sometimes you just gotta take the lupul. do you think that people are going to start riding cars more are they going to be avoiding the subway if this doesn't stop they definitely can't. avoid the train system because

everybody majority of people work in the city and you know isn't really not part of no part of him so it is no way to charm the. right to go easy way out you know you've got it's a good story is a metropolitan area so everything is all about transit so i doubt that could have been well do you think that mayor bloomberg might be behind this than an effort to get people to walk more. if that's what he's sherman do i don't think that's the way to do it. and that was rapper mr e.v.t. with us and after eleven years of combat in afghanistan the world is watching how america is impacting the now war torn country but there's a new player riling up on the local economy which is china now shopkeepers in kabul say that they're selling fewer and fewer afghan made burkas as imports rise from china and over the past few years china has entered the market with a cheaper version of the head to toe islamic garment which often half the price of

those made in afghanistan and that also means fewer jobs for local seems to seamstresses even in the afghan manufacturing market which are buying pretty material from china to save that cost leaving the locals to only work on the cap and veil now while the made in china label might be stigmatized in the u.s. now afghan tailors are starting to i as well that's going to do it for now for more on these stories we've covered go to youtube dot com slash our team america check out our website at r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at m underscore j underscore how old will be back five. world. science technology innovation all the latest developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. the for. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia with that every profit of asylum is a very high return on investment. which is good though i mean he has said that i've been working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups when they come i mean that is i knew that not a manager is a change their name a strategy british and just tell the same of murderous. high ranking suspects given no comment very upset on that mr president soon. after president

clinton carried both the media. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no i am an investigation is a dead. end up and says you can't stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. even if they're your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. blood rivers from gold cinch i've never heard of such a case as ours were so much money and gold has been stolen for so many years. for all the gold in colombia on our t.v. . because.

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with. to go via in northern colombia. beneath these rusty sheds the country's richest gold mine it's operated by canadian multinational corporation gran colombia gold. today the army has taken over the sector for a high risk mission. transporting the week's production to a safe location. three gold ingots over twenty kilos each. here we have sixty eight kilos of it. that makes one point two million euro.

in colombia gold is highly coveted by the criminal organizations. so in order to avoid an ambush the time and day of the transfer or decided at the last minute made my escape the this is the most critical moments notice and the gold leaves the factory it up got to be transported to the city of midday and it is. the in goods are carried away at a run. the soldiers mark out the course. the operation is completed in four minutes. the precious cargo takes off towards midday the regional capital from where the gold will be exported. this ago via gold mines are the oldest ones in south america they were own for a long time by an english company frontino gold mines but in two thousand and ten

and drawn colombia gold bought the entire concession. thanks to different tino mines the canada based multinational has become colombia's leading gold producer in two thousand and eleven. two and a half tons of yellow metal came out of these furnaces the checks are very strict everyone has body searched including the boss just things about. c.n.n. to my friend the vice president of gone colombia moreover has a pre-destined name who's a over zero zero zero being the spanish word for gold thanks a lot see you later my friend. who's a or always cuban to label former comrades or fidel castro he made the transition from marxism to capitalism with the greatest of ease. for him colombia is the new eldorado. it's very profitable to invest in colombia we did a very profitable is a very high return on investment and

a large reserves of natural resources to exploit it all in and what's more the easy resources they want to place that you know the countries all the food on the lower branches of the tree has been eaten and the only fruit left is at the top. whereas here there's still a lot of fruit left to pick up. but for the time being grown colombia is obliged to share its fruit while it officially wholly owns the enormous ago via deposit illegal mines have sprung up like mushrooms all over its concession. rafael to bone he's a manager oath. and a legal mind that has developed into a small company he and his partners were employed by the former company frontino gold mines bought out by grown colombia they've set up their activity here without authorization. and i guess i gotta tell right that i wouldn't understand it that it's everyone works on the front you know that well x.

frontino they forced us into doing this because they fired us you know and they threw us out not only got an hour or so we came to find work here. under the virgin mary's protection the miners descend three hundred meters below ground. at the mine bottom air is in short supply. so is the water good. better than my wife. smiles on their faces but on their backs loads weighing eighty kilos. six eight ten cents per day. for most slave labor that can be fatal due to cave ins and yet there's no shortage of miners wanting to work here some of them can earn up to two thousand euros a month four times the average salary in colombia. meter after meter the column moves forward. gold is embedded everywhere in the rock.

miles and miles of these galleries eat away a growing columbia's concession. it seems that is money. that. all this belongs to the people not to the company. so that you know how we break al back to our pesos. i'll give such suffering to be illegal that isn't even the. inside as on the outside it's the same anger because colombia is requesting that these illegal mines be closed down. it's all right where were the new countries the doors there you know they come with new technologies to steal the riches of the colombian. yes just do it's ours. as that lady says they come to steal what's ours because all of this is ours. this

is how we make our living from salvaging rocks. if the illegal mines close down everyone will lose their livelihood the miners but also thousands of women who sort through the rock debris where bits of gold can still be found. twenty four years old and i've been working at the mine for ten years now so we can match and if they close down the mine what we do. will be forced to leave to go you know will we go this is where the money is. the. fifty or so illegal mines such as el giotto are existing on borrowed time in this a go via area. and as the price of the yellow metal continues to soar on world markets so gold he is experiencing a new lease on life people are coming out here from all over the country to seek their fortunes. a modern day gold rush in the heart of war played colombia.

from the old children mine beyond carries bags of rocks to these antiquated mills. the rock is ground up for hours. to extract the gold particles a dangerous product is used mercury. this grey paste is obtained which contains the gold. we should wear long gloves and even masks but nobody uses any form of protection everyone just ignores the danger. and that's the way that people get older around here their hands start tremble. nervous disorders memory loss you thinks of mercury or devastating in the air in the water

inside go via mercury is omnipresent it's one of the most contaminated zones in the world. these small scale miners sell their gold. to merchants gold is exchanged for large wads of notes. so here everyone protects their business. this is to protect myself from thieves have already been held up twice. the mercury evaporates and the heat of the blow torches leaving behind the yellow metal which will be melted down into ingots this is how the gold from the illegal mines provides a livelihood force a go for years fifty thousand inhabitants. a parallel economy that has a oro had of gone colombia wants to eradicate completely.

little by little we're going to regain control we have to do away with all of this but at the same time we have to give the people work opportunities. for his safety posing or all right around in an armored four by four he wants to show us that he's perfectly at ease and to go via that he's at home here everywhere even at the barbershop. someone wants to say hello does that mean my go to the major ally you visit let me introduce you to some french journalists a major is the chief of the city police is a very good friend of ours. we have a contract with the police a contract with the army a contract with the city hall. that we also have a school that we finance and. the company finances the police and the army which in exchange ensures that security but the company also uses its

dollars to win over the inhabitants its latest project a local radio station. as i do most of who we've been the victim of a very strong demonization campaign. and we think that thanks to the raid. we're going to be able to change all that. but they have a good those facilities so if anyone wants to try to compete with this sort of influencing the population and i'm sorry but they love all they're going to lose the main goal is to make it one of the things that. while waiting to impose its power through the radio the multinational begins by imposing it through force. is. just a look at it we've been ordered to close down these lines. and for that one but it's out we can count on the support of the employees of britain colombia which owns the mining rights in this region to try to rescue. the company lends them its

premises and is present during the whole operation. first target an illegal tunnel on the outskirts of town. weapons in hand the policeman besieged the mine the situation soon gets heated. up and i'm asking you the question do you have a mining permit. no one has a permit i applied for one but they never gave it to me. yeah so we're going to start spinning if that's how it is and all of you want us to want to work so we're going to steal and kill or we'll start drug trafficking. i think the only civilian amongst the policeman an engineer from gong colombia guides the troops now a list of the mines to be closed down is displayed on his mobile phone screen. to

get him up if you want to take advantage of daylight we should continue on right away. ok let's go let's go meaning. but the operation is cut short the policeman fear a clash with the miners they contend. themselves with carting away a dozen or so of them back to the police station the police also seized the dynamite used to blast the tunnels. it was. a minor protests he was in the middle of negotiations with kong columbia to legalize his money whopper ration i mean let's face it as proof he holds out a business card in the name of who is a auro the head of the multinational into go via. mission. credit take three months for free. and free. free. free.

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. and it. it appears that jose oro is far from having one over to go via. today me the first the employees are gone colombia are out in the street they're demanding wage increases . small scale miners and local inhabitants are demonstrating alongside them. amidst the crowd one man personifies the revolt of the entire town. now there. was nothing. better. than. the euro ruach is president of the gobi a mine workers union today he's the multinationals leading adversary he contest the

company's right to operate this a go be a mines which up until two thousand and ten belong to different you know company he speaks of theft for one thing i just let me know that by giving the mines of the front you know gold mines company to a multinational they have violated all rights to the money stolen patrimony that belong soley to the workers to the retired workers and to all the people of sago all of the out. a speech that he repeats thesis lee in front of the microphones and film cameras. rising is that the likely demand is the most and we demand that once and for all they give us back the funky no mind street. does their hours. it would seem that the mines belong to the employees to prove it. takes us to his office he wants to show us a document that he keeps preciously a notarized act dating back to one nine hundred seventy nine.

at that time frontino was in dire financial straits and it's english and american owners wanted to leave colombia but they owed years of unpaid wages to their employees so from their head office in new york they decided to bequeath the company and all its mines to them it's all there in black and white. don't document this by way of this document signed in the presence of a notary in new york. it's now known as the new york act. is there it is i mean though it's through this that the donation was made to the workers say by way of payment. the new york act orders the managers or from tino to transfer all the property to the workers and retired workers or to their unions it was authentic aided by the colombian consulate in one thousand nine hundred nine the document was then handed over to the government which was responsible for announcing the good news to the miners get us there what happened then. and then says trade ministry

and minister did that all employment ministry at the time and the colombia consulate in new york on this document secret deal see. for twenty years the workers were unaware the frontino had between them the mines the company was run by local managers who got richer and richer wagon after wagon. but in two thousand while searching through the archives of the ministry of economy by pure chance a trade unionist and earth's the new york act from then on the workers are going to do everything in their power to recover frontino. but they have a dangerous man to contend with a certain carlos mario humanise alias macaco the macaque at the head of a paramilitary group of five thousand man he controls the entire region from the cocaine trafficking to the gold production activities. macaco is at that time one

of the unofficial owners of the frontino minds he operates them illegally by way of frontman. it i find all our goal behind all our riches are the economic interests of armed groups like the paramilitaries. paramilitary groups such as my congo's were organized by rich landowners to control the marxist guerrilla group the fox. they terrorized the country for twenty years. often with the backing of the regular army. it since ago via moreover where they perpetrate one of their first massacres in one nine hundred eighty eight forty three people are killed in the town center their favorite targets the trade unionists and leftist political activists. since that time the trade union leaders such as the euro rua received death threats on

a regular basis for their protection bodyguards permanently accompany them wherever they go. in the early two thousand the trade unionists come up against the paramilitary leader macaco hold over this a go via mines. they see their frontino heritage escape them little by little this territory rich in gold. so they take their case to court and the court rules in their favor. over those go a court and they don't mean a court that deals with matters relating to labor disputes rendered its decision at the end of two thousand and six and recognize that the minds of the front a new gold mines company belong exclusively to the workers and retired workers that was the loudest in the space of that city and in two thousand and seven the supreme court of justice confirmed that decision. but strangely enough it's the colombian

government that opposes frontino being given to the workers it appeals and manages to overturn all the decisions in favor of the trade unionists. the government at the time is led by president alvaro. he becomes personally involved in the case the frontier no company is overindebted he places it under direct control of the state . i've been seeing down. ghaith date the president alvero re big away from this region was very preoccupied and. nationality he had managed to resolve the major problems of the country but not those of his own regions. and this was like a thorn in his side for him. been in full all. has to deal with macaco the local paramilitary leader he names a commission of four experts to advise him on frontino his future according to our

investigation three of them have ties with macaco one of them is even his financial advisor role in day amid the heene businessman so here's a man who at the same time advises both the colombian president and a mafia leader as these documents from the chamber of commerce prove at the time the lindy runs at least two of macaco companies they serve as fronts for laundering money from cocaine trafficking. we make an unannounced visit to these mini offices equipped with a hidden camera linda has never been bothered by the legal authorities he wishes to remain discreet. but. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. person to be on board because of the country's political situation you know work and now that president or e bay is no longer in power. all those who helped or are now being persecuted

politically want to. go to a few and we were simply a team of advisors. but the private sector advisors. and we guided the president in his decisions here. but you pneumococcal personally. if he was one of my a longstanding customers if the boat tiles from. lindy won't tell us anything more he denies this collude. between the mafia and the government which prevents the unionists from recovering frontino that in two thousand and eight president a rebate is going to become sole game master he manages to eliminate macaco at washington's request he extradite him to the united states together with the other main paramilitary leaders all accused of drug trafficking macaco is sentenced in florida to thirty three years imprisonment but there's still no question of handing

over the mines to the workers the rebate looks for a more powerful investor. frontino his fate is sealed in two thousand and ten the government sells the company to a newly set up canada based multinational corporation granted colombia gold in suburbia workers and trade unionists give vent to their anger. and we believe and are almost sure of it that the president already made as financial interests in this matter. what he wants in fact as to take our minds into . the unionist accuses of our rebate he can't prove that the ex-president has direct interests in the new company but strangely enough the main winners in this matter or people closely connected to a rebate. at the side of the foreign investors at the head of growing colombia we find mario pacheco his first campaign manager. martinez his minister of mines and more importantly occupying the post of chairman and managing director maria

consuelo x. minister of culture and a close friend of the president delighted to celebrate in two thousand and eleven the company's entry into the toronto stock market as the role moved such an act of theft is totally unprecedented. you know not only in colombia but in the world of little i've never heard of such a case as ours where so much money and gold has been stolen for so many years. for the managers of the multinational the tree claims are without foundation. many people thought that they would obtain this mine de facto or lawyer through violence and usurpation. but i think that the colombian government made the right choice and that they needed a company that had the technical capacity and experience to operate the mines i mean if you know and if we didn't have any enemies unionists or others i mean i

would be very worried. that would mean that our minds aren't worth much to me and. how do you explain the death rates received by the trade unionists not you know no the contrary would be strange you know of year there's nothing unusual about someone receiving a threat. how often have we received threats some people have offered millions were done jose said. i mean if someone receives it right here it's. we don't threaten anyone. the sailor from tino to grand columbia was concluded four months before the end of all of our early base mandate. as a fighter for the people. who have strived for a safer more prosperous and more just country the former president left power in two thousand and ten he tours around the country to defend his track record long

left colombia. still very popular he loves to mingle with the crowd but hates interviews we made several attempts to question him about from tino in vain we made another attempt during a political meeting in the retard region the us and she go via the workers' union of frontino claim that the company belongs to them and that your government sold it to your friends or you have to say about that mr president as soon. as the president did yesterday. no answer but his campaign smile has disappeared levy would give us his version of the facts as for the trade unionists us to go via they continue their combat before the law courts they asked me colombian government for sixteen billion euros in compensation the value of the gold struck it from their minds over these past thirty years.

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